The move of Fermata Energy LLC, a Charlottesville-based company, to Danville is being headed up by David Slutzky, a former Albemarle County supervisor. Fermata, which is developing technology that would allow energy stored in electric vehicle batteries to be released to the nationwide energy grid, is moving operations to Southside thanks to a $2 million Tobacco Commission grant, announced last week.
Inside the Beltway, that is Alexandria, Arlington and parts of Fairfax, 32 percent of children are living in poverty or near poverty. In Fairfax County, 26 percent of children live in or near poverty. This is according to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
U.Va. is again being asked to disclose a faculty member’s email correspondence and other personal records -- this time by a gay rights advocacy group that says it’s concerned that the work of renowned Constitutional law professor Douglas Laycock is being used to support anti-gay and pro-life legislation. ... As in the Mann case, Laycock said he would leave the legal battle over the request to the university.
Agree or disagree with him, University of Virginia law school professor Douglas Laycock has had a lengthy and distinguished academic career. … Law professors need to be held as accountable for their controversial stances as anyone else, and they should certainly be invited into real-world dialogue with political activists. Dialogue is generally a great thing. But we should be careful about throwing around disingenuous terms like “dialogue” and “transparency” and “conversation” when we are really attempting to lecture and embarrass and chill. The conse...
Two University of Virginia students have filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Professor Douglas Laycock's e-mails and other correspondence. The intent does not seem to be to actually gain information, but rather to punish the law professor for supporting legal causes that they view as inimical to gay rights. Presumably it has occurred to them that this could have a chilling effect on other professors who might be tempted to give aid and comfort to the enemy. ...
Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, delivered U.Va.’s Class Valedictory Address. Manning was brilliant. He was funny, articulate, threw a few footballs out to students, and reminded the audience that kindness is a choice. And he stressed that being a rookie ­— and everyone wearing a tassel fit that description — meant you can make a difference but you need to remember your place. To a person the crowd loved him.
... Speaking at graduation, [wife] Ashley went to Virginia, and I enjoyed being around young people. That’s where the future is and anytime you have a chance to spend time with them ... I think the reason I was picked to speak at UVa’s graduation, the students picked because they said I’d been their top choice in fantasy football for four years. So that was the criteria.
Paul Tudor Jones is another hedge-fund billionaire on a quest for inner peace and profit. A PBS documentary from 1987 shows him trading in the most agitated, un-Buddhalike manner imaginable. Twenty-five years later, he and his wife, Sonia, an Ashtanga yoga enthusiast, gave $12 million to create the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Jones’s alma mater. David Mick teaches an undergraduate business school course there called “Cultivating Wisdom and Well-Being for Personal and Professional Growth.” He recommends meditation and takes e...
Now that students are off Grounds for the summer, it’s back to work on the University of Virginia’s iconic Rotunda.
Charlottesville officials on Monday will honor the work of the Consultative Resource Center for School Desegregation, a little known group that trained black and white teachers how to teach desegregated students. The local center, based at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education from 1967 to 1981, was one of 27 national education centers set up across the country.
Mel’s Café will be honored with the 2014 Chuck Lewis Passion Award in a ceremony set for next month. Presented by the Forward/Adelante Business Alliance in partnership with the University of Virginia Office of Diversity and Equity, the award recognizes local entrepreneurs for their accomplishments and contributions to the community.
The Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation worked with University of Virginia graduate Clay Kerchof during the spring of 2013, who at the time was a student intern from the UVa School of Architecture, to develop a master plan for new historic marker signs along the Roanoke Valley Greenway. By looking at other cities’ historical marker programs, Kerchof determined what kind of signs would be helpful and tell Roanoke’s history without being distracting.
U.Va. law professor and mental health policy expert Richard Bonnie joins Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the question being asked around the country: is there more that can be done to keep guns out of the hands of disturbed and potentially violent people?
Republicans are likely to support a continued troop presence but oppose the time line, said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Swaying more working class whites to the Democratic side might require tweaking policy positions in ways that would alienate minorities and female voters, said University of Virginia political scientist Geoff Skelley. “At this point, the tradeoffs they might have to make to attract more working-class white voters may not be worth the cost in irritating the constituencies of their current coalition,” Skelley said in an email.
“This cannot happen without long-term damage to the ecologic and hydrologic integrity of the Allegheny Highlands, among the best and least altered natural landscapes in the eastern U.S.,” said Rick Webb, a senior scientist with the University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Science, “and it will add to the factors that are driving environmentally irresponsible gas drilling practices.”
At the University of Virginia Professor Vivian Thomson has been looking at different states and countries - trying to figure out why some are more successful than others in promoting green energy. Virginia is one of three states she describes as passive - doing very little to combat climate change. One possible reason - our legislators are not professional lawmakers, and they don’t devote full time to studying complex subjects like climate change.
New research from a four-person team including U.Va. physics research scientist Dmitri Bandurin was published on the front page of Fermilab Today on May 15. The team is part of the Dzero collaboration, comprising more than 1,000 scientists from 32 countries, that has been carrying out experiments related to research on the fundamental nature of matter for the last 20 years. The team’s research on the measurement of the fraction of proton energy carried by b quarks began two years ago.
Americans are getting married later and later. According to the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, the average age of a first marriage is 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990.